Why Americans Aren’t Having Babies—and How It Hurts Us

[lerapt78]

Apparently a single neighborhood does not a national average make.

According to a CDC report I found here, **the average has declined from 3.5 children per woman in the 1950s to less than 2 now. ** By the way, this is only one of the many “achievements” in public health listed in this report, such as abortion on demand and government funding for contraception.

Way to go America…

This is more in line with what I had always thought.

The birth control of last resort is abortion and there is good evidence that many women have used it for that purpose. So the issue is not fertility - it is preventing fertility or inhibiting it.

christianliferesources.com/article/u-s-abortion-statistics-by-year-1973-current-1042

Since over 54 million babies have been murdered since 1973, it’s quite obvious what the problem is.

The current population of the United States is over 300 million.
In 1955, it was around 166 million.

There is another deeply imbedded problem that all Catholics should pray and work to solve.

nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?pagewanted=all

Peace,
Ed

I agree with what you have written, which is why I sensed a contradiction between your observance of 2-children families in the 50’s versus the families of today. If families of generations before typically had more than 2 children (which I thought they did), then your argument against birth control is valid.

If however, your observance of 2-children families decades ago was a indication of a general trend, then the argument that birth control has lowered the size of families wouldn’t be accurate though, would it? That would mean that if women are using birth control and abortion today to limit their children to 2, then it must follow that women before were also somehow limiting their number of children to 2, either through alternate contraceptive measures or illegal abortions. The number of children would be the same, both in the 50’s and today, which is why I perceived a sort of contradiction in your claim. The better correlation in my mind would be that women of previous generations were having more children and the number dropped in coincidement with the advent of the Pill.

Sorry if I misread your statement, it just confused me. Perhaps you meant that women in the 50’s limited their number of children to 2 via NFP, as opposed to contraception?

 

[Stillsosola]

America isn’t the only country suffering Mexico is now enforcing forced sterilization on women under 21 who have 2 children!!! I know I lived there my husbands poor cousin came home from the hospital in tears after having her 2nd child and they (fixed) her I couldnt’ believe it and I escaped since this is child #4 and the doctor just flat out explained that I had too many and that they would perform an unnecessary c-section and tie my tubes regardless of my wishes. I beleive america will be taking these steps next, as I hear liberals speaking of mandatory IUDs for welfare moms once they deliver thier 2nd child or how they should sterilize welfare recipients, and I know all too well how women dont’ want children now I’m 25 and all my friends tell me that I’m crazy for having 4# or my own mother who quit after 1 will state that the pill is a God send I just shrug and say actually its completely contrary to God’s will, also if you sacrifice the extras a large family can work nowadays anywhere

 

[ncrespi]

Be that as it may, it is not the economy alone. A woman needs a willing partner for parenthood. These days, far too few men wan to be be fathers, let alone husbands. The elgible ( willing ) ones are not marriage material. You can not blame a woman if she refuses to
marry a man who is unwilling to work, mentally deficient, alcoholic, etc.

So unless the Catholic Church…or parents…are willing to become matchmakers…then the crux of the problem will remain.

 

[ncrespi]

“By 2050 we will all be enjoying sharia law”

Thank God I will be 99 years old by then and likely off this earth. And if not, I wouldn’t be aware of it, anyway.

 

[buffalo]

“By 2050 we will all be enjoying sharia law”

Thank God I will be 99 years old by then and likely off this earth. And if not, I wouldn’t be aware of it, anyway.

You might already be euthanized because Obamacare doesn’t have the money to keep you alive.